Part-Time School Year Custodian

GENERAL SUMMARY OF DUTIES:

Under general supervision, the Part-Time School Year Custodian performs custodial tasks for a district-assigned school, Warren Central High School. The Custodial Team Members will perform routine custodial tasks supporting weekend events that provide school personnel, students, and the public with an environmentally safe, clean, attractive, comfortable, and efficient place to work and conduct school activities. Performs related work as directed.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

1. Ensures that the assigned areas are properly opened daily and fully secured upon completion of daily tasks (i.e., locking doors and windows, turning off electrical equipment, etc.).
2. Performs sanitizing tasks in various facility areas (i.e., restrooms, kitchen and food areas, cafeterias, etc.).
3. Performs custodial tasks (i.e., emptying and cleaning waste receptacles, washing windows, dusting furniture, cleaning vents, fans, walls, etc.).
4. Performs physically demanding tasks requiring the use of cleaning equipment and heavy custodial equipment (i.e., vacuuming, mopping, stripping, waxing, floor buffing, etc.).
5. Uses electrical cleaning equipment (i.e., vacuum cleaners, shampoo machines, high-speed buffers, etc.) to clean the assigned facility during the assigned hours.
6. Uses appropriate chemicals and cleaners safely and productively according to instructions and established rules/regulations to ensure the safety of students, the public, and all staff (including the custodian).
7. Respond to emergencies to confine, resolve, or prevent injurious or otherwise hazardous conditions (i.e., spills, broken windows, broken locks, etc.).
8. Moves furniture and other equipment in the performance of duties.
9. Cleans equipment and tools after use and maintains cleanliness and order in storage areas.
10. Report equipment malfunctions and facility maintenance needs to your immediate supervisor.
11. Performs routine maintenance on facility custodial equipment, such as changing vacuum cleaner bags, changing buffer machine pads, and checking batteries for equipment when needed.
12. Performs non-cleaning tasks in general facility maintenance (i.e., changing light bulbs, filling paper and soap dispensers, assisting in setting up and breaking down meetings/conferences, etc.).
13. Functions independently or as part of a custodial crew depending on the nature of the task, such as in seasonal/extreme weather facility preparations and other major custodial projects.
14. Responsible for checking email regularly, keeping up to date on District information on the Warren Employee Portal, as job appropriate.
15. With the support of the District, attends training to ensure proficiency at the level required to perform in current position.
16. Responsible for maintaining timely and accurate information as part of their job responsibilities.

NON-ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

While the following tasks are necessary for the work of the unit, they are not an essential part of the purpose of this position and may also be performed by other unit members.

1. Performs related duties as directed.

ENTRY-LEVEL REQUIREMENTS:

1. EDUCATION/TRAINING: High school diploma or GED preferred.

2. EXPERIENCE: Previous work experience demonstrating the ability to safely and effectively operate standard facility custodial equipment and fulfill the work's physical requirements or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

3. CERTIFICATION &/OR LICENSURE: None required.

4. OTHER: Ability to perform the essential functions, meet the performance aptitudes, and fulfill the physical/sensory/environmental requirements of the job (with or without reasonable accommodations) is required.

PERFORMANCE APTITUDES:

1. Data Utilization: Requires the ability to arrange, compare, count, differentiate, measure, and/or sort data and information. Includes judging whether readily observable functional, structural, or compositional characteristics are similar to or divergent from prescribed standards, procedures or routines.
2. Human Interaction requires the ability to exchange information to obtain information or clarify details. It is performed within well-established policies, procedures, and standards.
3. Equipment, Machinery, Tools, and Materials Utilization: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or control the actions of electrically powered custodial equipment, and hand-held supplies and cleaning tools.
4. Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, and advisory data and information.
5. Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition and subtraction.
6. Functional Reasoning: Requires ability to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagrammatic form. Involves semi-routine standardized work with some latitude for independent judgment concerning choices of action.
7. Situational Reasoning requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness, and creativity in situations involving a variety of generally pre-defined duties that are often characterized by frequent change.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: Tasks involve the ability to exert heavy physical effort in heavy work, with greater emphasis on climbing and balancing, but typically also involving some combination of stooping, kneeling, crouching, and crawling, and the lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling of moderately heavy objects and materials (20-50 pounds); may occasionally involve heavier objects and materials (up to 100 pounds).

SENSORY REQUIREMENTS: Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate odors. Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate depths. Most tasks require visual perception and discrimination.

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS: Tasks are regularly performed with potential exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as strong odors, fumes, dusts, wetness, humidity, machinery, vibrations, temperature and noise extremes, disease, pathogenic substances, and toxic/poisonous agents.